About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Monday, April 23, 2007

April 23......

April 23 is the 113th (114th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 252 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Courage "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Gynephobia "God created Adam, lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all." — Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 215 BC - A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.

● 33 - Christian tradition says the Jesus Christ, crucified three days earlier, was raised from the dead -- marking this date as the very first Easter. (The next time Easter falls on April 23rd was in the year 2000.)

● 303 - Perseus was arrested, tortured, and put to death.

● 1014 - Battle of Clontarf: King Brian Boru of Ireland defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.

● 1154 - Damascus surrenders to sultan Nur ad-Din van Aleppo

● 1343 - St. George's Night Uprising

● 1348 - The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III of England is announced on St George's Day.

● 1661 - King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.

● 1662 - Connecticut chartered as an English colony

● 1723 - Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht

● 1759 - The British seized Basse-Terre and Guadeloupe in the Antilies from France.

● 1779 - Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: '"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.' (Is one of the principles in the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.)

● 1789 - What is believed to have been the first Catholic newspaper in America, "The Courier de Boston" published its first issue. (The periodical lasted only until October 15th of this same year.)

● 1789 - U.S. President George Washington moved into Franklin House, New York. It was the first executive mansion.

● 1791 - James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, was born in Franklin County, Pa.

● 1795 - William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason

● 1798 - Dutch emperor accepts new Constitution

● 1826 - Missolonghi captured by Turks

● 1827 - William Rowan Hamilton presents his Theory of systems of rays.

● 1851 - Canada issues its 1st postage stamps

● 1858 - Max Planck, the German Nobel Prize winner who developed the quantum theory, was born.

● 1967 - Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty when its parachute lines became tangled and the parachutes failed to open properly upon return to Earth

● 1967 - A group of young radicals are expelled from the Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN). This group goes on to found the Socialist Workers Party (POS).

● 1968 - Decimal coins reach the high street; The first decimal coins make their way into purses throughout Britain in preparation for replacing the current system of pounds, shillings and pence by 1971.

● 1968 - Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university. Police storm the campus eight days later, resulting in numerous casualties.

● 1968 - In Dallas, the 10.3 million-member Methodist and the 750 thousand-member Evangelical United Brethren churches joined together to form the United Methodist Church. The merger made this the second largest Protestant denomination in the United States (after the Southern Baptists).

● 1969 - Northern Ireland independence activist Bernadette Devlin takes a seat as Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons.

● 1969 - Over 1000 square miles flooded in Shantung Province China

● 1969 - Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for killing U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy. The sentence was later reduced to life in prison.

● 1973 - Fifteen federal and local narcotics agents mistakenly invaded the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Giglotto of Collinsville, Illinois and, without a warrant, ransacked their home, smashing much of their property. No drugs were discovered and no arrests were made. This was considered a big deal at the time.

● 1973 - "Spirit of Peace" sails into French South Pacific nuclear test zone from Tauranga, New Zealand.

● 1996 - A New York civil-court jury ordered Bernhard Goetz to pay $43 million to Darrell Cabey. Cabey was paralyzed when he was shot in subway car in 1984.

● 1997 - An infertility doctor in California announced that a 63-year-old woman had given birth in late 1996. The child was from a donor egg. The woman is the oldest known woman to give birth.

● 1997 - Omaria massacre in Algeria; 42 villagers killed.

● 1998 - James Earl Ray died, at age 70, while serving a life sentence for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Ray had confessed to the crime and then later insisted he had been framed, getting support from the King family for this stance.

● 1999 - In Washington, DC, the heads of state and government of the 19 NATO nations celebrated the organization's 50th anniversary.

● 2001 - Royal aide on trial for murder; A former personal assistant to the Duchess of York stands accused of murdering her boyfriend.

● 2003 - U.S. President Bush signed legislation that authorized the design change of the 5-cent coin (nickel) for release in 2004. It was the first change to the coin in 65 years. The change, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, was planned to run for only two years before returning to the previous design.

● 2003 - Beijing closes all schools for two weeks due to the SARS virus.

● 2004 - President George W. Bush eased Reagan-era sanctions against Libya in return for Moammar Gadhafi's giving up weapons of mass destruction.

● All below are in honor of St. George:● Patron saint and National Day of England● Patron saint and National Day of Aragon● Celebrated as St. Jordi's Day and Lover's Day in Catalonia. Men receive a book as a gift from their romantic interest, while women receive roses. The book is in honor of Shakespeare's and Cervantes's death on April 23, 1616.● Jurgi festival, in ancient Latvia

● Lutheran:● Toyohiko Kagawa, renewer of society

● Ancient Rome : Vinalia (grape harvest), honoring Jupiter

● UNESCO International Day of the Book in honor of the death of both Shakespeare and Cervantes on April 23, 1616.

● Bermuda : Peppercorn Day

● Turkey - National Sovereignty (1920) and Children's Day (1923)

● Independence Day for the Conch Republic

● National Beer Day in Germany

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